I got to sit down for a few minutes with Fairy Tail manga-ka Hiro Mashima at New York Comic-Con; check out my joint interview with ANN’s Crystal Hodgkins at MTV Geek.
X marks the spot when the Manga Bookshelf bloggers discuss their Pick of the Week. David Welsh is excited about this week’s new manga, which include the first volume of Osamu Tezuka’s Princess Knight, and Lori Henderson has the list of the past week’s all ages comics and manga at Good Comics for Kids.
Erica Friedman posts the latest episode of Yuri Network News at Okazu.
Vertical heard Connie’s license request before she even made it; they announced at NYCC that they would publish Moyoco Anno’s Sakuran. Check out her post at Slightly Biased Manga anyway to see why she thinks we’ll like it.
News from Japan: Sgt. Frog, Deadman Wonderland, and other Kadokowa Shoten titles will be available online with the launch of the digital magazine Kadokowa Nico Nico Ace on the Nico Nico Seiga site. The Bunny Drop Extra spinoff manga is coming to an end, as is the romantic comedy Issho ni Neyō yo (Let’s Sleep Together). Ice Blade (Jiraishin) creator Tsutomu Takahashi has a new diablo (akuma) series in the works for good! Afternoon magazine. Three Steps Over Japan takes a look at the seinen magazine Comic Ran. Crunchyroll has a photo feature on the Mansai-Kocha Manga Festival. And Japanator spots an action-packed hiring manga designed to lure interns to work for Platinum Games.
Reviews: Carlo Santos checks out Mardock Scramble, No Longer Human, and a fistful of other manga in his latest Right Turn Only!! column at ANN. The Manga Bookshelf team rounds up some recent releases in their latest Bookshelf Briefs column. Ash Brown reports on another week of manga reading at Experiments in Manga.
Connie on vol. 6 of Bakuman (Slightly Biased Manga)
Ken Haley on vol. 24 of Blade of the Immortal (Sequential Ink)
Sean Gaffney on vol. 2 of Cage of Eden (A Case Suitable for Treatment)
Sweetpea616 on CLAMP School Detectives (Organization Anti-Social Geniuses)
Kristin on vol. 5 of Cross Game (Comic Attack)
Connie on vol. 6 of Dengeki Daisy (Slightly Biased Manga)
Leroy Douresseaux on vol. 6 of Dogs: Bullets and Carnage (The Comic Book Bin)
Kate Dacey on GeGeGe No Kitaro (The Manga Critic)
Lesley Aeschliman on vol. 16 of InuYasha (Blogcritics)
Connie on vol. 6 of Itazura Na Kiss (Slightly Biased Manga)
Connie on Junk (Slightly Biased Manga)
Amy Grockl on vol. 1 of K-ON! (Manga Village)
Erica Friedman on marriage black (Okazu)
Danica Davidson on vols. 11-13 of Monster (Graphic Novel Reporter)
Dave Ferraro on vol. 1 of No Longer Human (Comics-and-More)
Connie on vol. 17 of Please Save My Earth (Slightly Biased Manga)
Lesley Aeschliman on vol. 11 of Pokemon Adventures (Blogcritics)
Scott Spaziani on vol. 1 of Sailor Moon (Otaku in Review)
Danica Davidson on vols. 3 and 4 of The Story of Saiunkoku (Graphic Novel Reporter)
Anna on vol. 5 of The Story of Saiunkoku (Manga Report)
Caleb Dunaway on vols. 1-3 of Toradora! (Guys Lit Wire)
Danica Davidson on vol. 1 of Witch & Wizard (Graphic Novel Reporter)
Erica Friedman on Yurikam (Okazu)